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Successfully Navigating an Executive Director Transition
Children’s Fairyland is the nation’s first storybook theme park; definitely not your typical nonprofit. So maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised when the park’s executive director said to me, her replacement, as she handed over the keys to the kingdom, …
Reducing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting
Ideally, the decision to hire someone is based on how well someone’s skill set aligns with your needs. But in the real world, hiring processes are often subjective and affected by some degree of bias…whether you know it or not. Bias—prejudice in …
4 Things Your Nonprofit Can Do to Recruit & Retain Millennial Leadership
If a key leader at your organization left their job today, who would fill their place? Developing the next generation of nonprofit leaders is critical to the future of every nonprofit organization. Millennials now makeup the largest generation i …
If Your Board Looked Like Your Community
Moving Board Diversity from a ‘Problem to Solve’ to ‘Something to Practice.’ Staff and Board Members Weigh in on Common Hurdles and How to Overcome Them. This story is part of New Faces New Spaces, a series by the Irvine Foundation exploring how …
Board Support Position: Sample Job Description
Our thanks to Meg Evans, who shared her job description as Coordinator of Board Relations at the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation in Portland, Oregon. This version is edited from the original. JOB DESCRIPTION COORDINATOR OF BOAR …
Blue Ribbon Nominating Committee for Your Board
Use this method to recruit 3 – 5 new board members in the next 6 months: “Who do we know?” When board nominations comes up on the meeting agenda, this plaintive question is usually not far behind. While some boards have highly detailed ma …
Nonprofit Job Sites Directory
READERS: Please note that a new version of this Directory has been published in April 2011. Find it here. December is famously a bad month in which to look for a job, and a bad month in which to bring on someone new. Get a leg up on January with Tom Ba …
Recruiting for Board Diversity: Part 3 in Diversity Series
In Part 1 of this series on diversity, we discussed mission reasons, business reasons and other ways to think about diversity on nonprofit boards. In Part 2 we looked at diversity at the nonprofit sector level and the importance of organizations of col …
A Board Member “Contract”
One way to be sure that each person on the board is clear on his or her responsibilities is to adopt a board member “contract.” Not intended to be legally enforced, the contract outlines explicitly what is expected of individual board members, an …
Should Board Members Be Required to Give?
Are board giving requirements a best practice or a bad idea? We report on trends and explore the real questions: Few debates can rile up board members more than the question, “Should our board have a giving requirement?” Many of …
